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Your social audience is an extension of your CRM

Richard Lindley argues AI and automation can turn the combined social reach of a network's offices and agents into a pipeline that feeds the database, not just a marketing channel.

Rural group named number one in Ray White network
Franchise News

Strategic expansion propels regional Ray White rural group to top national ranking

Ray White Rural Pittsworth | Warwick | Dalby | Chinchilla | Stanthorpe grew to five offices and 35 team members in the past year, after setting a goal to top…

Single-bidder auction turned into a 40-minute negotiation for Patumahoe vendors
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Single-bidder auction turned into a 40-minute negotiation for Patumahoe vendors

Neil Sharpe and Sophie Boardman's strategic pre-listing preparation and targeted shed-focused marketing turned a single-bidder auction into a…

Akshay Sharma - Barry Plant’s Head of Commercial and Finance. Image supplied
Franchise News

Barry Plant reports growth amid softer Victorian market

Barry Plant has reported an increase in sales, listings and appraisal activity across its Victorian network in FY2025–26,…

George Goldsworthy - Partner at FOUNDIT. Image supplied
Franchise News

FOUNDIT strengthens Sydney Eastern Suburbs presence with appointment of George Goldsworthy

George Goldsworthy joins FOUNDIT with eight years of experience across Sydney's Eastern Suburbs, bringing a referral-built practice, deep…

Anne Flaherty, senior economist at realestate.com.au said rental vacancy rates rose nationally to 1.5% in July. Image: Supplied/Lois
Industry News

Vacancies climb to four-year high as renter instability persists

Rental stock improved in July for the first time in years, but new research shows tenant families – especially children – still face high turnover and financial strain in the private market.

Features

The 18-month lifespan: How to beat PM burnout

Amid rising legislative complexity and tribunal workloads, one principal explains the daily practices that keep her property management team well beyond the industry norm.

Industry News

Renting for life is now the plan, not the fallback, for many tenants

Modelling cited in the report suggests almost half of younger Australian households will still be renting privately past age 50 by 2040, reshaping how landlords should think about tenant retention.

Leadership

The professor problem: Fiona Blayney on who is actually teaching your people

In Track 02 of The Edit, Samantha McLean, Chris Hanley and Fiona Blayney examine the gap between managing people and developing them – and why…

Features

The mental conditioning a former bull rider brings to his agency

Leadership

Hope is not a strategy: Chris Hanley on trust, truth and moving stock

Features

Pancho Mehrotra: What Ted Lasso understands about leading people

Real Estate Agent Events

Happy people do more, and they love doing it

Walk into a property management business that's firing and you can feel it before anyone speaks. The energy is up. People are moving. The phone…

Partner Content

The thought we all have, but dare not say out loud

Partner Content

Three numbers that should make every principal uncomfortable, and one that matters

Real Estate Agent Events

Top of the Props 2026 finalists take aim at property industry’s biggest pressure points

The silent commission killer: why agents lose 60 days every year

Pancho Mehrotra unpacks the psychology of prospecting avoidance and how to rewire your habits for maximum output.

Contributor

Freedom is the hardest thing young agents have to manage

Urban Real Estate's Trent Brewer says flexibility without daily discipline is what actually derails new…

Contributor

What really separates top agents in today’s market

Strip away the noise: why mastering communication, marketing, and negotiation beats every market shortcut

The behaviour you walk past is the behaviour you accept

Hannah Gill argues real estate culture is shaped less by strategy statements and more by…

Contributor

How good agents learn from feedback without being ruled by it

Four practices for taking feedback seriously without taking it personally.

Contributor

Shorts

AI & Technology
Younger buyers embrace AI for market research, but human advisors retain final trust. Image: Lois

Buyers are asking AI before they ask you

Research shows 38% of Gen Z and 34% of Millennials now use AI platforms as…

Elite Agent launches Saved Articles, free for every reader

Have you ever found a headline interesting at a moment when you didn’t have time…

Peter Schravemade and Antonia Mercorella

Proptech’s real problem isn’t the software, it’s the rollout

The biggest challenges facing Australia and New Zealand’s proptech sector are no longer technical. They…

San Francisco’s AI boom has buyers spending unprecedented amounts of money on homes – much more than sellers are asking for. Image: Lois

San Francisco homes selling US$1m over asking amid AI boom

San Francisco’s housing market has flipped from a city people were leaving to one where…

The proptech push to finally unify your real estate tech stack

The modern real estate office has become a complex web of disconnected systems. What was…